On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 16:44 +0200, Rohan Oberoi wrote: > I'm sorry, but while your point of view is undeniably valid it reminds > me irresistibly of the Dilbert comic strip in which an engineer says > > "I'll make the command easy to remember, like 'CTRL-ALT-F4-DEL.' And > if they forget that, they can just edit the source code in > 'COMMAND.COM.' Perfect." > > Just because you think something "isn't that hard", don't assume > everybody else has the time or inclination to go through the learning > curve as well. Make things as simple and intuitive as possible, not > as twisted and complicated as you personally are happy to put up with. > I would have thought that would be Usability 101.
I didn't say it was easy, I said it wasn't that hard. The web page is a bit convoluted, and could do with a bit of help. But you're much better of taking this with Musicbrainz directly, rather than expecting an interface to be built into Sound-Juicer. An interface in Sound-juicer would be much more complicated than you'd expect, as Musicbrainz has concepts that wouldn't be easily translated into a non-web UI (artists as their own, voting, strict naming of tracks/artists, referencing, etc.). Make the Musicbrainz website better, it's the right way to improve it. At the same time, one thing that Sound-juicer could do, when a network connection is available, is allow to add disc IDs to an existing release (ie. a disc already present with a different ID on Musicbrainz) without going through the interface. I filed http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436913 about it. That would take care of most cases for end-users, although rare/incredibly new discs would still have problems. -- Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
